Posted on 04/09/2016 5:04:53 PM PDT by Sawdring
To the frantic manager of a Coon Rapids Burger King Friday night, the choice was to act fast or face disaster.
A caller who said he was a fire department official said there was a gas leak in the building and that unless the windows were smashed, a gas buildup in the building would cause an explosion. So the manager and Burger King employees evacuated the restaurant and started smashing ground floor windows. Every single one.
Problem was, it was a hoax. The caller was no firefighter. There was no gas.
(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...
I’d like to go to a news site that actually gave the city AND state of the story’s location.
“”””whoppers are sinfully delicious.””
They taste like broken glass for some reason.
they do at that restaurant, at any rate.
They really fell for a whopper.
Got that wrong. It was Thursday night in OK City.
http://kfor.com/2016/04/08/employees-at-oklahoma-burger-king-bust-out-windows-after-prank-call/
Some guy got a bad burger (normal for BK), or crap service....and sweet revenge
Mercaptan!
Coon Rapids, MN. Suburb of Minneapolis.
In the story, supposedly, it also happened in California.
And these people think they deserve $15.00 an hour?
The new “Knockout Game”
DANG!
I’ve eaten at that Burger King.
I hope stupid isn’t contagious.
These heroes deserve $15 dollars an hour!
That takes a special kind of stupid.....
Nawww. Everyone should know that if you need to smash your windows EMS will send a letter. They don’t inform you of such things over the phone.
What a great name for a suburb of MSP— “Coons Rapids”
Yeah, and they couldn’t put that in the article?
This incident amplifies the degree to which Americans have become compliant to orders of any kind. Just be quiet folks and follow orders, even if the orders are given by an anonymous phone caller. Never question authority. Rule #1.
Didn’t they smell a hoax? Apparently not.
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